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From: Keith Dart <keith@×××××××××.biz>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] About gnash and swfdec
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:26:10
Message-Id: 20100108052431.7bfc220e@dartworks.biz
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] About gnash and swfdec by Xianwen Chen
1 === On Wed, 01/06, Xianwen Chen wrote: ===
2 > Hi guys and girls,
3 >
4 > Have you tried gnash or swfdec as alternatives to adobe flash player?
5 > I tried both of them. The high consumption of cpu resource and the
6 > lack of support to SWF version 8-10 are the main disadvantages in my
7 > opinion. And it seems that swfdec hasn't published a new version for
8 > more than a year. Perhaps gnash is our only hope currently?
9
10 I did try them, and you are right. Adobe now has a 64-bit version of
11 their flash plugin and that's what I use now and it works well. I had
12 to do this, however, to get a clean 64 bit install:
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14 cat /etc/portage/package.use
15 ....
16 www-plugins/adobe-flash -32bit -multilib 64bit
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